ITALY: Strange Fascination

Sacred are the relations of host and guest.
Recently a trinity of hoststhe City of New York, its Mayor and
President Coolidgeentertained Prince Ludovico Spada Varalli
Potenziani, the tall, cadaverous Governor of Rome. Last week Guest
Potenziani returned to Italy and on landing at Naples spoke as follows
of his hosts:

"President Coolidge showed me and my staff a cordiality which astonished
even the White House servants . . . who are best acquainted with his
[usual] reserve and scantiness of words and gestures.